Errata for NLSY97 Round 14 Release

Errata for NLSY97 Round 14 Release

A number of edits across nearly all rounds were made to these variables. Many colleges and a few highschools were incorrectly identified as newly reported schools in the respondentsâ€™ school histories. The edits were made to provide the correct pubid and round that the school was first reported. The following number of edits were made to these variables:

We continue to conduct checks on the consistencies among the created education variables and across different survey years. When inconsistencies were found, we incorporated the information collected from all rounds to arrive at the created variables. These checks resulted in the following hand edits for the created variables listed below:

The following hand edits were made necessary as we made corrections to NEWSCHOOL_INTERVIEW.xx and NEWSCHOOL_PUBID.xx:

PUBID

QNAMES

YEARS

VALUES

7012

CV_HIGHEST_DEGREE_0607

2006

-3

7012

CV_HIGHEST_DEGREE_EVER_EDT

2006

4

7012

CV_HIGHEST_DEGREE_0708

2007

4

7012

CV_HIGHEST_DEGREE_EVER_EDT

2007

4

7012

CV_HIGHEST_DEGREE_0809

2008

4

7012

CV_HIGHEST_DEGREE_EVER_EDT

2008

4

4) Created schools attended variables â€“ Round 3 through Round 13

A review of the school identifiers on the NEWSCHOOLD_ roster uncovered some high schools that were listed as new to the respondent rather than a school the respondent attended in an earlier round. These corrections caused the updates to the following number of schools attended variables:

Due to additional information gathered during the round 13 marriage section, a number of updates were made to created marriage and cohabitation variables. The variables, round and number of affected respondents are below:

Variable Name

R5

R6

R7

R8

R9

R10

R11

R12

R13

CV_COHAB_TTL

1

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

CV_FIRST_MARRY_DATE~M

2

4

4

9

10

28

50

-

-

CV_FIRST_MARRY_DATE~Y

2

4

4

9

10

28

50

-

-

CV_FIRST_MARRY_MONTH

2

4

4

9

10

28

50

-

-

CV_FIRST_COHAB_DATE~M

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

-

-

CV_FIRST_COHAB_DATE~Y

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

-

-

CV_FIRST_CONHAB_MONTH

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

-

-

CV_MARRIAGES_TTL

3

5

6

11

11

28

49

50

47

CV_MARSTAT

3

5

8

14

17

36

54

51

51

CV_MARSTAT_COLLAPSED

4

6

8

14

16

35

54

51

49

6) Created child birth date/residence status â€“ Round 12

Data from the current round led to updated information on the children of respondents. The affected variables and number of respondents are the following: